CHERNOBYL, Ukraine — In April 1986, Alexander Rodnyansky was a young documentary filmmaker living in Kyiv. When the fourth reactor of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Station exploded 60 miles north of the Ukrainian capital, most citizens of the Soviet Union were not informed. It took the government 18 days to share exactly what had happened, but Rodnyansky had been filming the disaster zone from the day after the catastrophe.
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An abandoned building is seen in the ghost town of Pripyat near the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant early on April 26, 2021 during an event to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster.
